Advantages of Being Religious

tagesThe word "religious" means "relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity". A religious person, therefore, does not believe blindly in a religion but he has a faithful devotion on the ultimate reality or God. A religious person believes that there is something above the human perception that is superior to any one of us which connects everyone. This ultimate reality has been called God though people have discovered God in their own way. It is like seeing a big elephant by small individuals. Everyone can see only a part of it.
A religious person believes that God is not only Supreme but also Eternal. Hence the faith of the person does not change everyday like the studies of science. The result is that even now, we are following the religions which are many thousand years old. Even after great advancement of scientific knowledge, more than 90 percent of the people still believe in God because they are aware of the many benefits in being religious in their unconscious mind.
The five greatest benefits of being religious are as following.
1. Love
God is the only source of love as love like God connects everyone. Every religion asks people to love and not hate others. The religious people do not believe in any other ideology like socialism, nationalism or capitalism which had been created by man to rule other men and based on creating hatred for others. He, therefore, love others since religions only teach people to love.
2. Compassion
A religious person believes in God and His eternal compassion for the mankind. He knows that God loves people so much that He can forgive even the greatest sin of His children if the person repents. A religious person, therefore, shows compassion to others since he too need compassion of God. He does not judge others since he leaves the judgment only to God. Therefore, instead of having hatred for people who err, he has only compassion for them.
3. Health
It is a well known fact that